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sPEcIPIoATIoN forming part of Letters Patent No. 383,435, dated May29,1588.

Application filed August 10, 1887. Serial No. 246,578. (No model.)Patented in England February 17, 1887, No.2,455;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM Bnown, a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, and residing at Selkirk, in the county of Selkirk,Scotland, have invented certain Improvements in Oarding-Engines, (forwhich I have obtained British Patent No. 2, 455, dated February 17,1887,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in carding-engines, andhas for its object the arrangement of the machine or engine in such amanner that the fibrous material in passing through the machine orengine is 0perated upon in an unbroken sliver, sheet, or web, so as toproduce when spun,worsted-like yarn with ordinary wool without the samehaving to go through the operation of combing. Hitherto in this class ofmachines the wool or fibrous material in passing through with thecylinder has been taken up by the workers, the latter revolving in acontrary direction to the cylinders, and by means ot'the strippers thewool is cleared from the workers and returned to the cylinder, whichmode of carding gives to the wool a confused ap pearance.

I accomplish my object by dispensing with the strippers and mounting asuccession of workers over a portion of the circumference of thecylinder, placing between each pair of workers a small roller, by whichthe fiber is prevented from falling onto or touching the cylinder untilit reaches the point of contact ot'the following worker and thecylinder, by which means the fiber is always carded in one direction anddelivered in a regular sheet,web, or sliver t0 the doffer of theordinary construction.

In order to more fully explain myinvention I have appended three sheetsof drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side view in outline ofaportion of a carding-engine, sufficient to explain my invention. Fig.2is a detail of a portion of the cylinder with some workers and myadditional rollers shown thereon; Fig. 3, a detail showing a mode ofoperating the workers and additional rollers, and Fig. 4 is a plan ofthe same.

The ordinary cylinder covered with card cloth is indicated by the letterA,and the work ers W are mounted on suitable brackets, which may be ofthe ordinary construction, attached to the frame-work, and my additionalrollers, R,placcd between the workers XV, may be carried by similarbrackets to those carrying the workers. 7

The workers W are driven in the ordinary manner by chains or othersuitable gearing. In the drawings I have shown them driven by chains 0and O, operated by the pulley D, and conducted somewhat in the mannershown by dotted lines on Fig. 1, the chain 0 passing over wheels E, andchain 0 over wheels E, secured on the respective worker s'hafts.

The series of wheels E and E have not all the same number of teeth, thefirst wheel at the feeding side of the cylinderA having the most, andthe number on each wheel diminishing with each successive worker towardthe doffing or delivery side of the cylinder, so that the last worker ofthe doffing side rotates the quickest. All the other workers precedingitrevolve gradually slower in proportion to the number of teeth on thechain-delivery wheels E or E, the first worker at the feeding side beingthe slowest; Each of my additional rollers R has a surface speed equalto that of the following worker, motion being given to the said rollersby spur-wheels F and F, mounted on the respective worker and additionalroller shafts, or the latter may be driven by chains or bands the sameas the workers.

The directions of the rotation of cylinder A, workers W, and myadditional rollers, R, are indicated by the arrows as shown on the drawings, and the fibrous unbroken sliver, sheet,or web passing alongin onedirection only, at S, in one continuous sheet, is indicated by arrow 1.

What I claim 18-- The combination of the main cylinder of acarding-engine, and workers therefor, with rotary rollers between theworkers to carry and feed the lap from one worker to the next, allsubstantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. V

' WILLIAM BROWN.

Witnesses:

JOHN STEEDMAN, WILLIAM LYON,

Both of Selkirk, Solicitors.

